The Science of Hooking Up
It seems that researchers at Manchester University have come up with a scientific explanation for the "beer goggle" effect. For those of you who are unfamiliar with beer goggles, it is when a "person you would normally find unattractive appears less 'visually offensive'" after you consume some alcohol. The researchers actually created a mathematical formula that would determine how attractive another person is based on variables such as alcohol consumed, lighting and smoke, distance, etc. The score of the effect ranges from less than 1 to over 100, from no effect to where did all these supermodels come from? It's interesting how the formula only determines the strength of the beer goggle effect, leaving a measure of beauty out of it. That's just as well since I think that the subjectivty of beauty can be fairly well demonstrated.
Amusing as such research is, I was relieved that this was funded by Bausch & Lomb so (hopefully) no public funding was spent researching such an inane part of human mating rituals. However this formula will be immensely useful for men who wonder how much alcohol they will have to drink to bear picking up just anyone.
Amusing as such research is, I was relieved that this was funded by Bausch & Lomb so (hopefully) no public funding was spent researching such an inane part of human mating rituals. However this formula will be immensely useful for men who wonder how much alcohol they will have to drink to bear picking up just anyone.